关于价格和货币流通状况的历史 第3卷
作 者:(英)托马斯·图克,(英)威廉·纽马奇 著
定 价:118
出 版 社:中国财富出版社
出版日期:2020年08月01日
页 数:300
装 帧:平装
ISBN:9787504771063
本书为该系列丛书的第三卷,介绍了1840-1847年间小麦的收成和价格情况,并对英国小麦价格预期走势做出了判断,书中还介绍了其他拼了农作物的价格变化情况。此外,书中还对纸币流通中的问题、货币与资本的关系、货币危机的形成以及银行破产等方面的问题展开了讨论。
本书是一部经典性的著作,在经济学说目前占有不容忽视的重要地位。本系列丛书共分为6卷,讲述了1793-1856年间价格和货币流通状况的历史。作者对时间进行了严格的划分,分别介绍了不同年代间的谷物贸易、谷物价、谷物以外其他农产品的价格、物料流通状态、银行的监管问题等内容,并具体说明了各个时间区间的特点以及该时间段的谷物价格和大致产量。除此之外,作者还就《谷物法》以及金融机构的相关内容进行阐述,介绍了《谷物法》早期、中期和后期的特点及其颁布和实施后所带来的相关影响,自由贸易的原则在商业立法中的应用,英国银行的管理和相关政策,国家对金融、银行和信贷机构所采取的政策等。本书为该系列丛书的第3卷。
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER Ⅰ ON THE CORN TRADE IN 1838 AND 1839 3
SECTION 1 Cursory review of the seasons and crops of 1836 and 1837 3
SECTION 2 Character of the season in 1838.prices and estimated produce of wheat 6
SECTION 3 Character of the season of 1839.prices and estimated produce of wheat 13
SECTION 4 Relative prices of wheat and barley 18
SECTION 5 Influence of the corn laws on prices 20
SECTION 6 Effects which a bounty would have had 43
SECTION 7 Suggestion of the substitution of a fixed duty 46
SECTION 8 Conjecture as to the prices at which wheat would range in the event of a free trade 48
SECTION 9 On the effect of the prices of provisions on the condition of the working classes 51
CHAPTER Ⅱ ON THE PRICES OF PRODUCE,OTHER THAN CORN 53
CHAPTER Ⅲ ON THE STATE OF THE CIRCULATION IN 1838 AND 1839 66
SECTION 1 Causes of the recent depression of our foreign exchanges,and the consequent drain on the coffers of the Bank of England 67
SECTION 2 On the regulation of the bank issues in 1838 and 1839 75
SECTION 3 Doctrine of the supposed duty of the Bank of England to accommodate the trade,and to support the commercial credit of the country 100
SECTION 4 Result of the review of the management of the bank in 1838 and 1839 112
SECTION 5 Vindication of the bank from some groundless charges 114
SECTION 6 Examination of the effects imputed by mr.hume in his speech of the 8th of July,1839,to the management of the Bank of England 120
CHAPTER Ⅳ ON THE SEVERAL ALTERATIONS PROPOSEDIN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CURRENCY,WITH AVIEW TO REMEDY THE EXISTING DEFECTS 174
SECTION 1 On the proposed total separation of the business of issuing bank notes from that of the deposits,and other mere banking operations 177
SECTION 2 Plan proposed for retaining the present system of union of the two departments,with greater security against the risk of suspension 187
SECTION 3 On the two schemes which offer themselves,consistently with the present standard,in the event of the bank charter not being renewed 203
SECTION 4 On proposed plans for altering the standard 209
SECTION 5 On the effects of a silver standard 211
SECTION 6 On the effects of a double standard 216
SECTION 7 On a system of paper circulation without a defined principle of limitation 218
SECTION 8 Digression on the suspended american banks 228
SECTION 9 Summary of the preceding review of the state of the circulation,and of some of the alterations proposed in our banking system 243
CHAPTER Ⅴ OBSERVATIONS ON A RECENT PUBLICATION BY MR.SAMUEL JONES LOYD,“ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CIRCULATION,AND ON THE CONDITION AND CONDUCT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND,AND OF THE COUNTRY ISSUES,DURING THE YEAR 1839” 246
Paper communicated by Mr.Pennington 277
APPENDIX 286